Send Outlook 2016 Email To TaskPaper

I REALLY want to use TaskPaper for GTD. Tried everything I I just am a plain old lists person. But keeping track of everything means interfacing with email as 90% of my tasks come in via email. I found the mail.app macro to get messages to TaskPaper, but I can find no Outlook macros. No skill or time to learn how to write a script to do this–does anyone have an Outlook script that will send a message to TaskPaper InBox with a link back to original message in outlook?

I’ll sketch something this (EU) evening.

In the meanwhile, to activate links of the form outlook://2040 for clicking in TaskPaper, you will need to:

  1. Download the zip of this Github repository: GitHub - acidix/OutlookURLHandler: URL Handler for Outlook 2016 on OS X
  2. Follow the first three steps, to install the URL handler.

( It isn’t code signed, so you may have to refer to this:

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18657?locale=en_US

but the source code is simple and visible )

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I have made an edit to the Send selected email(s) to TaskPaper 3 script here:

so that it can be used (if you adjust the options at the bottom of the script) with Outlook 2016.

INSTALLATION consists of two stages:

  1. Activating outlook://nnnn links (see the reference to the Github resource in the earlier post, above)
  2. Changing the mailApp option at the end of the script.

The default is:

{
    inboxPath: '//Inbox and @type=project[-1]',
    mailApp: 'com.apple.mail' // or edit to 'com.microsoft.Outlook' // 
}

and to make it read the active selection in Outlook 2016 (rather than Apple Mail), you should edit it to:

{
    inboxPath: '//Inbox and @type=project[-1]',
    mailApp: 'com.microsoft.Outlook' //  (was 'com.apple.mail' )
}
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I’ve also put a Keyboard Maestro version, which shouldn’t require configuration (it detects whether the front application is Mail or Outlook 2016) here:

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Thank you for sharing this.

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Thanks for creating this…almost 2021 and it still works like a charm!

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